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F. BATTER. DEVICE FOR DRAWING BEER.

N0..433,614. Patented Aug. 5, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BATTER OF IWIARSHFIELD, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LARS OLEMMENSEN, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR DRAWING BEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,614, dated August 5, 1890.

Application filed April 9, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK BATTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marshfield, Coos county, State of Oregon, have invented an Improvement in Devices for Drawing Beer; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device for drawing beer; and it consists of an attachment to an ordinary beer-faucet whereby the beer can be drawn with greater rapidity without the necessity of reducing the gas-pressure within the cask.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through the device and a transverse section through the faucet and cock,showing the connections. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the faucet, showing the plan View of my device.

In drawing beer or otherliquid from casks in which it is contained-under considerable pressure it is necessary to draw the beer very slowly to prevent too great a quantity of foam, and in order to overcome this objection the gas is frequently partly discharged from the cask, so that when the beer has nearly all been drawn it leaves it in a flat and undesirable condition. My device is intended to overcome these difficulties.

It consists of the tubes A, which are fixed into the sides of the faucet B so as to project outwardly at right angles from said faucet. In the sides of the plug C are made openings E, which when the cock is turned so as to connect through the faucet-body with the cask or barrel will allow the contents to flow out through these openings and into the tubes A. These tubes are of any desired length and have a series of holes or short tubes. F projecting downwardly from them, as shown.

To the ends of the tubes A are fixed the hooks or suspending devices G, and from these aboat-shaped receptacle His suspended. The upper portion of this device II is sufficiently flaring or divergent so that the liquor flowing out through the pipes A and discharged through the short tubes will fall into it, and being conveyed by its convergent form toward the center is discharged through a cen- $erial No. 347,256- (No model.)

tral pipe or tube I into the glass or receptacle into which it is desired to draw the liquor. The lower end of the faucet-plug will in this case be closed up, so that no liquor can escape at this point.

The two vided with a stop-cock K, by which they may be closed, if desired, and the cap being removed from the lower end of the faucet the faucet can then be used in the ordinary manner after the beer has been nearly all drawn from the cask. By this construction and the employment of a great number of small discharge-openings the beer will flow out through the tubes A when the faucet is opened and will be discharged in small separate streams through these passages, falling into the receptacle below, by which it will be conveyed to the discharge-opening. I am thus enabled to overcome the objectionable pressure and force of the gas, and can thus'draw the beer with considerably rapidity, while retaining it in a solid form with only a reasonable amount of foam in the glass.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device for drawing beer, consisting of perforated tubes extending from the faucet and communicating with the interior of said faucet through openings in the sides thereof,

. and a supplemental receiver suspended immediately below said perforated tubes, and into which the latter discharge, substantially as herein described.

2. A device for drawing beer, consisting of a faucet, perforated tubes extending at right angles with said faucet and communicating with its interior through openings in the sides of the faueet-plu g, a receptacle suspended beneath the perforated tubes, and into which said tubes discharge, said receptacle converging to a central point and having a discharge pipe or passage leading from it, substantially as herein described.

W. n. s. HYDE,

JOHN F. HALL.

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